| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: solitude of the Brutus Tower, that Myles told his friend of his
father's outlawry and of the peril in which the family stood. And
thus it was.
"I do marvel," said Gascoyne one day, as the two lay stretched in
the Eyry, looking down into the castle court-yard below--"I do
marvel, now that thou art 'stablished here this month and more,
that my Lord doth never have thee called to service upon
household duty. Canst thou riddle me why it is so, Myles?"
The subject was a very sore one with Myles. Until Sir James had
told him of the matter in his office that day he had never known
that his father was attainted and outlawed. He had accepted the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: 'Why, yes: I came to ask a favour of you. First, tell me your half-
brother's name, which I have forgotten--he was a mere child when I was last
here;--I know his father's, which is Pyrilampes.' 'Yes, and the name of
our brother is Antiphon. But why do you ask?' 'Let me introduce to you
some countrymen of mine, who are lovers of philosophy; they have heard that
Antiphon remembers a conversation of Socrates with Parmenides and Zeno, of
which the report came to him from Pythodorus, Zeno's friend.' 'That is
quite true.' 'And can they hear the dialogue?' 'Nothing easier; in the
days of his youth he made a careful study of the piece; at present, his
thoughts have another direction: he takes after his grandfather, and has
given up philosophy for horses.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: where there was never any lack of them."
The saga--as given by Rafn--had a detailed description of this
quaint personage's appearance; and it would not he amiss if American
wine-growers should employ an American sculptor--and there are great
American sculptors--to render that description into marble, and set
up little Tyrker in some public place, as the Silenus of the New
World.
Thus the first cargoes homeward from Vinland to Greenland had been
of timber and of raisins, and of vine-stocks, which were not like to
thrive.
And more. Beyond Vinland the Good there was said to be another
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